Jennifer Grey on her nose jobs, Patrick Swayze and the 'Dirty Dancing' sequel
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As Jennifer Grey promotes her forthcoming memoir, 'Out of the Corner,' she is speaking out about multiple topics, including her two rhinoplasty surgeries.
"But when I was a kid, I was completely anti-rhinoplasty. I mean it was like my religion," she told People magazine." I loved that my parents did it [underwent rhinoplasty]. I understand it was the 50s. I understand they were assimilating."
It was her mother, Grey said, who first suggested she get her nose done. When she finally did years later, she no longer looked like the woman who had come to fame starring in the 1987 hit film "Dirty Dancing."
Grey said she and co-star Patrick Swayze were not "a natural match" in real life and that caused some of the tension that fueled their characters in the film.
"I actually just had a thought about Patrick," she said of Swayze, who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57 in 2009. "I feel like if I could say anything to him now I would say, 'I'm so sorry that I couldn't just appreciate and luxuriate in who you were, instead of me wishing you were more like what I wanted you to be.'"
